wow Druids Disappointed with Latest Skyriding Changes

[Stan 5,240]

Recent changes to Skyriding have left many Druid players unhappy. They want the ability to assign Static Flight to their Travel Form independently from other mounts.

Before the War Within pre-patch, Druid's Travel Form had Static Flight by default, while other mounts used Skyriding. However, Blizzard's pre-patch changes no longer allow separate flight styles for Travel Form and other mounts, disappointing many Druids.

What's even worse is that Switch Flight Style now has a 5-second cast time.

But this is not just about Druids! Having the option to assign Steady Flight and Skyriding to mounts should be available to all players!

Players hope Blizzard will address these issues and improve the experience for players in future updates.

TWW Pre-Patch Druid Skyriding
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No longer being able to go to flight form as a Druid immediately from dragonriding is way more annoying than I expected.
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[Prophet001 598]

Having instant cast travel form tied up in the steady flight/sky riding toggle seems like something that was overlooked.

Maybe have a distinct toggle for instant/steady vs dynamic on druid's travel forms.

Also, feels like maybe the choice would be better per mount? idk

[TheRagingwolf 258]

2 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

Having instant cast travel form tied up in the steady flight/sky riding toggle seems like something that was overlooked.

Maybe have a distinct toggle for instant/steady vs dynamic on druid's travel forms.

Also, feels like maybe the choice would be better per mount? idk

Or maybe they could separate druid flight form from the flying mount drama completely. It doesn't make sense that when a druid goes to flight form it's considered a mount.

On that note, static flying should be the default and skyriding should require the toggle on. I personally do not mind every flying mount (well, almost every mount) having the skyriding option, I just don't believe it should be the default at every login. I'd rather have a menu option to choose to turn off skyriding completely and then the toggle to choose skyriding over static. The menu option can be set to ON by default but having it would be a great QoL for me.

[Swarf 110]

4 hours ago, Stan said:

Having the option to assign Steady Flight and Skyriding to mounts should be available to all players!

Yes it should.  100% dumb that this wasn't obvious to the devs.

Also, druids are spoiled brats.

[Brightamethyst 104]

EVERYONE is disappointed with the skyriding changes. The new system is objectively worse than the old system, for no apparent reason.

[SpilledStars 71]

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 It doesn't make sense that when a druid goes to flight form it's considered a mount.

Um, I worked very very hard to get the "my flight form is a mount form" farmed in Legion content.  The net result is I'm only a mount if I tell the barber shop I am precisely this one model of bird.

If they make so only druids can "cast the flight method button" midflight, that would be good whether it has a cast time or not.

5 seconds cast time is silly.  If it's gonna have a cast time it shouldn't be more than 2 seconds.

If it's a per mount option they should make it a toggle and not make it a cast time at all, since invoking a mount has its own cast time.  
 

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Also, druids are spoiled brats.

My thanks for all the hard work saving the planet from demonic invasion was BfA, then Shadowlands, then an entire DF where I could turn into a stag any I hit the button that should have been flight... oh, and a class tree that was as much a wreck as the newly planted baby-bunting seed, until eventually someone woke up and bothered to look.

Spoiled brat or abandoned to be raised by wolves?

Edited July 30 by SpilledStars

[TheRagingwolf 258]

1 hour ago, SpilledStars said:

Um, I worked very very hard to get the "my flight form is a mount form" farmed in Legion content.  The net result is I'm only a mount if I tell the barber shop I am precisely this one model of bird.

Except you're not on a mount, you're just shape-shifting to a bird. Druid flight form is a character state/stance much like shadow for priests, you just get to move faster. So, to avoid problems or those cast times you speak of in the rest of your post, treating flight form like what it is, state/stance, allows for a better approach in terms of how flight form functions, from a development perspective.

[Harvey 60]

Perhaps this problem is excabated by the fact that druids got the short end of the stick as compared to monks.
Monks can use their zen flight or something (instant-cast class cloud mount) mid-flight, then cast any flying mount again to get old-school flying without the need to 5-second-swap to and fro.

[Guz 24]

I had also made a post about this. It’s just plain terrible right now. 5 second cast time is so unnecessary. 

[FlamedramonX 38]

Evokers have it even more rough rn. There is a bug that will happen 8 out of 10 times while trying to traditional flight Soar while inside a city or even a map near a city that will cause you to inmediatly flop back down to the ground after the initial take off. Its really annoying

Edited July 31 by FlamedramonX

[SpilledStars 71]

On 7/30/2024 at 2:15 PM, TheRagingwolf said:

Except you're not on a mount, you're just shape-shifting to a bird. Druid flight form is a character state/stance much like shadow for priests, you just get to move faster. So, to avoid problems or those cast times you speak of in the rest of your post, treating flight form like what it is, state/stance, allows for a better approach in terms of how flight form functions, from a development perspective.

Oh, sorry, for clarity, I mean "when I fly, someone else can be a passenger on my bird form".  

Also yes, instantly, as stances are instant cast.

Maybe it's me but I have only seen Skyriding get passengers if the skyride Mount is one of DF's originally-tied-to-it dragonriding mounts, be it stormgryph, grotto-netherwing etc.

The Sandstone Drake, Rocket, and ObsidianWing are all accepting to the saddle passengers as they ought.

I've not seen anyone turn into side-car riding "whelps" or otherwise on other steeds.

[TheRagingwolf 258]

4 minutes ago, SpilledStars said:

Oh, sorry, for clarity, I mean "when I fly, someone else can be a passenger on my bird form".  

Also yes, instantly, as stances are instant cast.

Maybe it's me but I have only seen Skyriding get passengers if the skyride Mount is one of DF's originally-tied-to-it dragonriding mounts, be it stormgryph, grotto-netherwing etc.

The Sandstone Drake, Rocket, and ObsidianWing are all accepting to the saddle passengers as they ought.

I've not seen anyone turn into side-car riding "whelps" or otherwise on other steeds.

Not sure where you're going with any of that in relation to what I said.

My only point was that druid flight form is not the same as mounting up. It's a change to the state of your character, as far as the back-end of the game is concerned. So, there's no reason to treat it the same as getting on a mount, again, programmatically, which is to say, Blizzard can treat flight form different from mounting and avoid the issues druids are having with skyriding and flight form.